My surgeon has just discovered my port is back to front and couldn`t give me a 1st fill. He said I would hear from him in the next 6 weeks. Has anyone experienced this and how was it corrected. Could it have been fitted wrongly as on the Xray the tube coming from it was straight and if it had turned on its own surely I would have seen a twist in that tube.

he will have to take you to surgery to fix the flip

There's a member here named FairyFacade (Laura) that had a flipped port. She said she'll be back to post on Thursday. You could try PMing her then.

Hello!

They kept 'filling' me for months, and I never felt a change. They did it under fluero a few times. Finally they saw, the saline was just 'splooshing' into my body. They initially thought I had a leak in the port or tubing, they couldn't tell the problem.

So I had another operation to fix leaking...when they got in there, my port had flipped completely backward, so that under the x-ray it looked fine.

They flipped it back, and moved it from my stomach to between my breasts (the hard spot).

The surgery was not bad at all, just sore. MUCH better than the initial surgery. It has not flipped again since.

Good luck, it sucks finding out you have a complication.. but it does pass. A week after the surgery I was back to being excited about the band! Especially since they can fill it now.